Sweden Medal 1872 In Memory of Count W. H. B. Scheel-Plessen – by Lea Ahlborn aUNC

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1872 White Metal Medal – In Memory of Count W. H. B. Scheel-Plessen – by Lea Ahlborn

Obverse:
Bare-headed portrait of Count Wilhelm Heinrich Baron Scheel-Plessen facing left. Around: “COMES W. H. B. SCHEEL–PLESSEN”. Below: Roman date “MDCCCLXXII”. Signed below bust: “LEA AHLBORN”.

Reverse:
A classical galley at sea, with a robed figure reaching forward at the bow. Above: “QUANDO ULLUM INVENIENT PAREM” (“When will they find his equal?” – from Virgil).
Below, within a tablet:
“AMICO ET FAUTORI / SVECIAM POST VIII LUSTRA RELINQUENTI / AMICI LUGENTES GRATO ANIMO / D.D.D.”
(“To the friend and patron, departing Sweden after forty years of service, his grieving friends dedicate [this] with grateful affection”).

Historical context:
This medal commemorates the departure and death of Count Wilhelm Heinrich Baron Scheel-Plessen (1794–1871), a Danish-born diplomat who served Sweden with distinction for over 40 years. Designed by court medallist Lea Ahlborn, it was issued in 1872 in both silver and this more affordable white metal version. The maritime imagery and Latin inscriptions express respect, grief, and admiration in neoclassical form — typical of 19th-century diplomatic medals.

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